Laura Numeroff will be at Mockingbird Books (7220 Woodlawn Ave NE) next Wednesday (September 29, 2010) at 7 p.m. Numeroff is the nationally-acclaimed author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. She will be discussing her new books The Jellybeans and the Big Book Bonanza and The Jellybeans and the Big Ca …
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The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has just unveiled a new map of Seattle for pedestrians. The Seattle Walking Map was designed to help people choose a walking route that best suits their interests and individual fitness levels. The routes identified on the map come from a variety of sources including Feet First, King County, [ …
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Registration is now open for Green Seattle Day 2010. Green Seattle Day will be on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. The event is a kick-off to the forest restoration work the Green Seattle Partnership plans to do in 2010-11. “Without a coordinated effort,” the online event posting reads, “S …
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Work continues at 7214 Woodlawn Ave NE, the future home of Jodee’s Desserts. Nestled between Mockingbird Books and the green lake florist, this location was completely gutted by an electrical fire in March. Restoration work began this summer. Bakery owners Butch Capo and Jodee Capo estimate that t …
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A My Green Lake tipster reports that at around 3 p.m. this afternoon (Sunday, Sept 19, 2010), a man knocked on her door in east Green Lake. He introduced himself as a new neighbor and said that he had locked himself out of his house. “He said he needed $75 to pay the locksmith,” says [...]
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The dog ate my cutting garden. No, not really. I don’t have a dog, or even a goat I can pin this on. What kind of a garden offers neither food nor flora back to its house? Mine. In my ill-fated frenzied focus on tomatoes last spring, I somehow forgot to plan for cut flowers. [...]
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